Day 8, 9 & 10 – April 23rd – 25th
Sailing speed picked up. Felt sea sick.
The 8th Dinner: Grilled fresh caught fish, rice and a bean, corn, salsa salad by Ben & Kat
The 9th Dinner: Fish taco’s and rice by Brian
The 10th Dinner: Garlic and Herb pasta by Kat
Day 11 – Monday April 26th
The view has not changed for days. I look out to an ocean of blue – nothing but water all around and it is not going to change anytime soon!
We caught 2 more fish today, bringing our total count to 6. Fishy for dinner, mmmmmmmm good. Or Mahi Mahi, that is “fish, fish” in the Persian language.
Well we are at the half way point in time but not in distance. I was hoping we’d be near the equator but the 3 days of no wind in the beginning of the trip mucked that up.
Hold onto your hat, it’s going to be a long ride. So far no one has lost it, really. They don’t seem insane but how do you tell when present company are all crazy?
Lot’s of time for reflection and to contemplate what & where I want to go in life. I guess I should start to take advantage of this.
Tonight’s Dinner: Polenta bread fresh fish and homestyle chips by Ben & Brian
Day 12 – Tuesday April 27th
3pm - Caught another fish today. Yellow fin and it was huge! Fish on. Carrot crop took a sh*t. Now I am making carrot cabbage coleslaw, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, for dinner tomorrow we’ll be having carrot ginger soup and carrot cilantro Asian noodle salad. For snacks we’ll be eating carrot sticks….. :)
7:15pm – Yeah, I made cake, well attempted too. It was a disaster – start to finish with me spilling 3 eggs and 1 cup of oil all over the place for starters, and ending with cutting off ¼” of the burnt bottom. It was delicious no matter how it appeared. Definitely worth all the kitty expletives & the melt down that occurred. Poor kitty….
We just got 3 hits on all 3 fishing lines at once! - Very exciting indeed. What do you know, we hooked a shark! However, in all the chaos I ended up losing my Tuna. Kitty sad :(
What a thrilling day – we also had a helicopter fly by. What? Where did they come from? Nobody knows! They did a lap around the boat, thoroughly checking us out, then waved and disappeared into the abyss.
Tonight’s Dinner: Cedar plank teriyaki fresh fish, leftover garlic smashed potatoes, and carrot coleslaw by Brian & Kat
Day 13 - Wednesday April 28th
Hump day – both time and distance. I tried painting my toes today. What was I thinking! I am definitely losing it. I baked a cake yesterday with disastrous effects and today I did this. I guess I am just trying to be normal but I have to realize that I am not. And this is not a normal life. What an epiphany!
Painting toes in a pitching boat put that down in the record books. However, I did have some success and they do look pretty dam good. Nothing a little polish remover couldn’t fix.
It only took 2 hours of lying down to re-cover from feeling sick. I’ve acclimated but it is never going to be 100% for me. I just have to realize that. Not sure if this life is really for me. Jury is still out on this case …………
Tonight’s Dinner: Grilled fresh cedar plank Ahi with an Asian noodle salad by Brian & Kat
Day 14 - Thursday April 29th
9pm – Fishing boat traffic. Got close and everyone freaked out – like we have never dealt with night traffic before! It was crazy but they were showing the wrong mast colors denoting that the vessel was not under command. Then they cut us off and didn’t respond to our radio hails. We eventually had to start up our engines to maneuver but all was over in about 45min.
It was funny that we all panicked but that was only the 2nd boat we have come across so far in the pacific.
Tonight’s Dinner: Curry fish and rice by Kat & Ben
